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Sierra Leone Ebola Survivors Face New Hardships

Mon, 2016-03-14 17:18 — davidmc

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE—

As 2016 begins, Daddy Hasan Kamara, one of more than 4,000 Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone, is grateful to have his children with him. They mean the world to him.

Nine of his family members were not so lucky and died from the disease, including one son.

“I’m really suffering, I’m really seeing things very hard,” Kamara said.

Since his recovery, he has not been able to find work. He has eight children and two sisters to care for.

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Development Initiative Programme (DIP) Capacitates Ebola Orphans and Survivors

Mon, 2016-03-14 14:47 — davidmc

The Development Initiative Programme (DIP) has on Saturday 5th March, 2016 through support from TERRA Tech, a German donor, ended a three day distribution of startup kits to Ebola survivors, orphans and vulnerable children of thirteen communities across Freetown and its environs.

According to the organizers, they said the aid would enhance the capacity and resilience of Ebola affected communities, and mitigate the negative impact of Ebola in the targeted communities.

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Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) Resurrects Sanitary Inspection with ESICOME

Mon, 2016-03-14 14:22 — davidmc

Bo Mar. 10, 016 (MOHS) - As Health Ministry continues consultation on its proposed Expanded Sanitary Inspection Compliance and Enforcement, stakeholders in the southern region commends the initiative of the Government of His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma.

During a Consultative meeting held at the Sidami Memorial Hall, Bo City, March 9th, 2016; Paramount Chiefs, councilors and other stakeholders drawn from the four districts in the southern region: Bo, Moyamba, Pujehun and Bonthe expressed their appreciation on the proposed Expanded Sanitary Inspection Compliance and Enforcement and the National Emergency Medical Services (NEMS) Projects which the government is poised to implement countrywide.

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Treating Ebola with Plasma

Mon, 2016-03-14 14:06 — davidmc

During the Ebola outbreak of 1995 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, eight patients with Ebola were given blood transfusions from people who had recently recovered from Ebola. Seven of them survived.

The blood of people who have recently recovered from an infection contains antibodies that the body develops naturally to fight that infection. The transfusion of these antibodies into infected individuals (as whole blood, plasma, or concentrated antibodies) has a long history and has been proposed as a possible treatment for Ebola virus disease.

see more at: http://www.dddmag.com/news/2016/03/treating-ebola-plasma

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DFID makes the right noises over Ebola lessons

Mon, 2016-03-14 13:11 — davidmc

The outbreak of Ebola that devastated West Africa is out of the media spotlight, and no doubt many of us have wondered what happened to all those debates over lessons to be learned. A panel discussion at the United Kingdom’s Parliament delved into this issue last week. The event was organised by the Africa All Party Parliamentary Group to launch a report reviewing evidence submitted in response to an inquiry into the Ebola response last year, which included our Spotlight collection.

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Sierra Leone targets 1.5m children in measles campaign

Mon, 2016-03-14 12:52 — davidmc

The Second round of vaccination against measles in Sierra Leone has been scheduled to commence on Thursday, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation said today. Over 1.5 million children are being targeted during the five-day campaign that will see health volunteers move door-to-door to vaccinate children against the preventable viral disease that reared its ugly head at the height of the Ebola epidemic.

Children who missed out on other routine vaccinations will also be given those doses.

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US supports malaria control in Sierra Leone

Wed, 2016-03-09 16:53 — davidmc

The Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) has welcomed the announcement of support by the United States Government to include Sierra Leone in President Barack Hussein Obama’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). This was disclosed at the weekend in a joint press release by the Public Affairs Office of United States Mission Sierra Leone and the Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. According to the release, “The Ministry of Health and Sanitation is hopeful that the additional funds for PMI requested by President Obama will be approved by the U.S. Congress, paving the way for Sierra Leone to join other countries supported by this initiative.” The inclusion of Sierra Leone in the PMI will be a realization of the request by President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma during a White House meeting in 2013 with President Barack Obama, the release states. -

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Zero Discrimination Day on HIV and other Diseases

Wed, 2016-03-09 10:28 — davidmc

Freetown, March 2nd 2016 Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) - Sierra Leone has joined the world over to observe Zero Discrimination Day on HIV and other diseases on the theme: “Stand out and encourages everyone to stand for fair and just societies”.

Addressing the Press on Tuesday March 1, 2016 at the Health Ministry’s conference hall in Freetown, the Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation 1, Foday Sawi Lahai while speaking on the theme observed that discrimination remains widespread in gender, nationality, age, ethnic origin, religion or even HIV and Ebola.

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Ban to convene international Ebola recovery conference in New York

Tue, 2015-06-02 21:40 — mike kraft

UN NEWS CENTRE June 2, 2015

To help mobilize needed resources “in the last mile of the response” against the Ebola outbreak and to start the affected West African countries on the path of early recovery, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced that he will convene an international conference next month.
In Sierra Leone, local health workers plan for the day ahead, as they continue their vigilance against Ebola. Photo: WHO/S. Aranda

“All of your investments, all of the sacrifices and lives lost, and all of the risks that the relief workers took would be squandered if the outbreak recurs,” Mr. Ban cautioned in his remarks to an informal plenary of the UN General Assembly on the Organization’s Ebola response efforts.

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